UP: SC students asked to wash MDM utensils, keep them separate; principal suspended, cooks sacked

MAINPURI

: A school principal here was suspended and two cooks terminated over complaints that scheduled caste students were asked to wash their mid-day meal utensils themselves and keep them separate, a senior official said Sunday.

Chief Development Officer Vinod Kumar said the action was taken after village pradhan Manju Devi's husband

Saheb Singh

filed a complaint Saturday, alleging SC students were being discriminated against at the government primary school in

Dodapur

in Bewar block.

Singh said in the complaint that the SC students, around 80 in all, unlike others were made to clean their utensils after eating the meal and asked to keep them separate.

Upon receiving the complaint, the

CDO

, along with Basic

Shiksha

Adhikari

Kamal Singh

and project director

KK Singh

, inspected the school and its kitchen, and found the allegations true, the officer said.

Taking cognisance of the matter, the CDO terminated the services of the cooks on the spot and suspended principal

Garima Singh Rajput

on the charges of dereliction of duty, he said.